Are tarballs obsolete?

Re:Are tarballs obsolete? by juliangoldsmith on Monday October 26, 2015 @09:56AM (#10451412)

You can generally replace

    <some hard to remember command with like 4 flags to unpack,
     plus hope it ends up in a subdirectory and does not put all files in this dir>

with

    tar -xf <filename>

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Re:Are tarballs obsolete? by err4nt on Monday October 26, 2015 @10:59AM (#10451869)

    -x means extract

    -f means force

and my favorite to put in there is:

    -v for verbose

This shows you all of the files being processed, sometimes it can be really helpful to see. Try:

    tar -xvf <filename>

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Re:Are tarballs obsolete? by mabo on Monday October 26, 2015 @01:01PM (#10452692)

Actually, -f makes tar read from a file instead of stdin.

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Re:Are tarballs obsolete? by err4nt on Monday October 26, 2015 @02:36PM (#10453418)

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